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Review: Portland Center Stage's Body of an American

With a masterly script and commanding performances, Portland Center Stage's new, world-premiere production brilliantly casts a light into humanity's shadowy psychic spaces.

10/15/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

forest for the trees

OBT's the Body Beautiful Preview + Slide Show

The Oregon Ballet Theatre creates a night of dance around myth and the human form, involving mammoth original sculptures. Opens this weekend.

10/09/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Slideshow: Oregon Ballet Theatre's the Body Beautiful

10/09/2012

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Review: Third Rail's That Hopey Changey Thing

Third Rail Repertory sets us a place at the Apple family table in this astute, humorous, but not always hardy telling of the political drama. Plays thru October 28.

10/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

garden events

MOMIX's Botanica Coming to Portland

MOMIX and Portlander Michael Curry collaborate in a balletic floral extravaganza, coming in Feb-March, 2013

10/05/2012 By Kate Bryant

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Review: NW Dance Project

The local world–class dance company tackles three ambitious world premieres, and award-winner Franco Nieto shines. Playing through Saturday at Lincoln Hall.

10/05/2012 By Aaron Scott

a loving sacrilege

OMG: The Book of Mormon Goes on Sale This Friday!

The biggest Broadway show on Earth (and any other celestial sphere) hits Portland in January. Tickets on sale Friday at 10 am.

10/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

feed me, seymour!

Review: Little Shop of Horrors

Broadway Rose's current production of the musical hits all the right notes: It's gallows-humorous, deliciously campy, and set to a nostalgia-inducing score of late-'50s R&B tunes.

09/28/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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Slide Show Preview: White Bird's Le Grand Continental

This Sunday, over 150 people will fill Pioneer Square with the biggest choreographed dance the city's ever seen. Check out our photo preview.

09/26/2012 By Aaron Scott

swing your razor high, sweeney

PCS's Sweeney Todd Preview + Slide Show

Portland Center Stage tackles Sondheim's macabre masterpiece about a barber on a murderous rampage. We talk with the director and scenic designer.

09/20/2012 By Aaron Scott

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PCS's Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

09/20/2012

festival plotlines

TBA:12 in Retrospect

In its first year under the curation of artistic director Angela Mattox, the PICA fest got more thematically unified—and just plain better—as it progressed. Here's what worked (and didn't).

09/20/2012 By Aaron Scott

dogs playing piano

TBA: Laurie Anderson Review

The matron saint of performance art ends the festival with not so much of a bang as a plunk.

09/19/2012 By Aaron Scott

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TBA Day 10: Faustin Linyekula's Le Cargo Review

The Congolese choreographer takes us on a journey with little but the beauty of his story and dance. Final show tonight at 6:30.

09/15/2012 By Aaron Scott

hot in the kitchen

TBA Day 9: Gob Squad's Kitchen Review

The theater collective offers a witty and charming multimedia riff on Andy Warhol that makes it the best of the fest. Playing Fri & Sat at 8:30.

09/14/2012 By Aaron Scott

thistle do

Review: And So It Goes

As long as you don't treat Artists Rep's latest like a Vonnegut primer, you and your date will have a good time.

09/13/2012 By Anne Adams

best of the fest

TBA: Week 1 Wrap Up + Fest Finale Preview

8 days in, with some of the best yet to come, we offer our picks for the final weekend, and recap what we've seen.

09/13/2012 By Aaron Scott

political theater at its best

TBA Day 7: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol Double Review

The Mexican theater collective tackles ambitious political topics with their two shows. Final performance tonight at 6:30.

09/12/2012 By Aaron Scott

they all fall down

TBA Day 7: Review of Keith Hennessy's Turbulence

A glorious mess that's shot through with enough rigor, humor, and heart to entertain and incite. World premiere plays Tues thru Fri at 8:30.

09/12/2012 By Aaron Scott

too much of a not great thing

TBA Day 6: Perforations Review

A series of site specific performances by Serbian and Croatian artists contain moments of beauty that are overshadowed by moments of boredom. Final performance on Tuesday at 8:30.

09/11/2012 By Aaron Scott